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Anton Howes
Personal blog · antonhowes.com/bloghistoryeconomics
Anton Howes's personal blog at antonhowes.com covers history and economics. Since 2019, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 3 times. The last post was in 2019, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Anton Howes is a blog on the history of innovation and economic history. The one linked post distinguishes macroinvention, which opens new possibilities, from microinvention, which refines what already exists.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Anton Howes
What Hacker News says?
Arguably the distinction you're pointing at is macroinvention (the transistor) vs microinvention (a better VR headset): one is a refinement of something that exists, another is transformative opening up whole new worlds of possibility. https://www.antonhowes.com/blog/macroinvention-vs-microinven...
Comment linking /blog/macroinvention-vs-microinvention
on “John Carmack's arguments against building a custom XR OS at Meta”Submitted Is Innovation in Human Nature? (2016) as a story · 21 points
HN discussionSubmitted Where was the most plausible spot in 1550 for the Industrial Revolution to come as a story · 3 points
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